They just left a few minutes ago, actually, because I had scheduled an appointment last Sunday, when our net went down and couldn’t renew the IP address even after multiple attempts to reboot and re-assign IPs. Take note, that was done under the directions of the Smart Bro tech support, but it still didn’t fix things.

So the guy referred me for scheduling tech guys coming over. The earliest they could come was Wednesday, but I had to go out that day. So I opted for the weekend.

(Sidenote: The net came back Monday, I think, so it seemed pretty useless to have them come over still. Nevertheless, I was still curious if they could fix anything.)

So after they left, I tried a speed test at testmy.net and got these results. Note: I’m uploading installation files via FTP as I did the download test, but it shouldn’t matter if the net is really fast!

Your connection is: 18 Kbps or 0.02 Mbps
You Downloaded at: 2 kB/s
You are running: 0 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 512 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:1869592545216
Test Time:: 2006/07/01 - 1:24am
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Test ID: 7DACIWJ0F (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 16.67 % of your hosts average (188.142)
This was tested from a 386 kB file and took 173.048 seconds to complete

Wonderful! So much for coming over and supposedly improving things.

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